Madrid-based Moro is no stranger to legal cases as a result of his writings. He has collaborated with celebrity author Dominique Lapierre to produce a book.
Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Spanish author Javier Moro are embroiled in a war of words over the latter’s book El Sari Rojo (A Red Saree), a fictional account of the life of Sonia Gandhi. The book on the Congress president was published in Spanish in 2008 and is slated for an India release.
Singhvi has served Moro with a legal notice for writing a book containing “untruths, half truths, falsehoods and defamatory statements” about the Congress president. Moro has retaliated and threatened Singhvi with legal action for “terrorising his publishers”, and claimed that the Congress spokesman acquired a manuscript of the book in an “illicit manner”.
“I don’t know how Singhvi or others have got their hands on the version when the book is not even in the market yet. I plan to sue him,” Moro said, adding, “My book is a book on the glory of the Gandhi family. It defends the ideals of the Gandhi family. These ideals I myself defend.”
Singhvi is unfazed by Moro’s aggression. He stressed that the Congress’s objection to the book had nothing to do with the question of freedom of expression.
“Nobody has the right to fictionalise the life of a living person. How can anyone write an imaginary version of events that have happened in real life and claim that it is the right to freedom of expression?” Singhvi asked. “We did have protracted negotiations about the book sometime back and the writer was willing to add a disclaimer that his book had nothing to do with any living person, but then he backed out at the last stage,” he added.
Madrid-based Moro is no stranger to legal cases as a result of his writings. He has collaborated with celebrity author Dominique Lapierre to produce a book.
Five hours past midnight in Bhopal on the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy and this too had run into legal trouble, with the then superintendent of police Swaraj Puri challenging the narration of events.
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